Point of View

Green writes A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor mainly in past-tense, first-person point of view, alternating between the main characters April, Maya, Andy, Miranda, and Carl as chapter narrators. Point of view is particularly important to the telling of this story because Green frames the novel as a book that the characters are writing about their recent experiences. This explains the necessity for the story to be in past-tense and first-person perspective because the characters are each recounting their own experiences. This calls into question the target audience for their book. The characters intend to write this book as a tell-all book to explain Carl’s intervention in human affairs. Therefore, the intended audience for the characters’ writing is the general public in their world.

Green highlights the different narrators’ interests as they chronicle their experiences. The characters’ conflicted feelings about exposing their stories to the world...